Tuesday, November 22, 2011

LEBANON, an arena of foreign battle

Lebanon is a country in middle east which has an area about 10.452 km, now has turned itself into an arena of foreign battles. Armed clashes between Lebanese militias in and around Beirut were not the only conflicts which took place in Lebanon. Palestinian from Lebanon`s refugee camps were also engaging in cross-border attacking the Israel villages near the Lebanese frontier which often drew military respond from Israel . in Arab league meeting in Cairo 3 November 1969, the newly founded Yasser Arafat had been given the green light to conduct these operations from Lebanese soil. The Lebanese government at that time found no way it could deny access to the fighters without alienating other Arab states and causing further expansion of the already widening Muslim- Christian rift in the country. The Israelis, however, sought a solution to their problem PLO by approaching Christian and Shiite inhabitants of the south who strongly resented Palestinians presence among them, or who simply remind there rather than fleeing north, to join with an auxiliaries forces that they were forming. This local militia would help repulse the PLO, thereby protecting Israel`s northern frontier. Saad Al Hadad a Christian which commanded this force – the southern Lebanese army. Despite this precautionary measure , however, cross border attack continue again Israel northern settlement, although that they had drastically decrease in the late 1970. In fact in the eve of the massive Israeli invansion of Libanon in 1982 something like ceasefire was prevailing around Lebanon`s sothren border, nevertheless the invasion was justified Tel Aviv as a means of ending terrorism there .
In the operation, entitled operation Galilee and directed by di defense minister Ariel Sharon , Israel forces went all the way to Beirut and they hope that they could smash all the rest of Palestinian and their allies and worked out an arrangement with Israel Christian allies that would produce peace treaty the goal of that strategies were nt achieved duet to strenuous opposition from Lebanese group and the assassination of the Israel militiamen Israel had counted a on to swing peace treaty . even more unfortunately for the Israelis, the battles of west Beirut and its occupation by their force d radicalized some Shiite, let to their cooperation with Iran and Syria and finally resulted in the war of attrition that is still causing the grieve today.

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